Gottfried HABER is associate Professor of Economics at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He studied Business Administration and Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Research fields include economic policy, economics of the public sector, macro-economic analyses, regional economics, banking and finance, financial markets. Gottfried Haber is currently President of the Economics Policy Council of Carinthia, Austria, and member in several commissions and supervisory boards, as well as President of METIS Institute of Economic Policy.